Clothes-pin.



A. SCHUCH;

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18, I915.

1,150,229." Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

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. AUGUST sci-wort, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed February 18, 1915. Serial No. 9,084.

which the following is a full, clear, and en act description.

This invention relates to an improvement in clothes-pins of the wire'spring variety.

I am aware that clothes-pins have heretofore been made out of wire formed to produce a spring action to engage a rope and hold clothes thereon, but my clothes-pin is provided with features of improvement over those referred .to which will hereinafter appear.

One of the novel features of my invention is that the upper and gripping part of the leg-members, when spread apart, will lie in parallel vertical planes.

In fact one of the chief objects of this invention is that the pin can be caused to engage the rope close to the loop or handle of the pin, at which point there is a stronger gripping action.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail, the novel features of which I will point out in theappen'ded claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved clothes-pin; Fig. 2 is a side view thereof looking from the left in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged endview of the upper end of the pin, looking from the left in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4: is an enlarged front view of the upper end of the pin, the leg-members being illustrated as spread apart to receive a rope.

My improved clothes-pin is formed pref erably out of a single piece of wire. The pin, which is illustrated by A, consists of a head 1 in the form of a loop comprising two complete convolutions to form a spring. A continuation of the wire forming one of the convolutions 2, is carried outwardly in to form a leg-member 3, which consists of a plurality of members 3 and 3 connected at 4 (see Fig. 2). The leg member 3, as can be seen, consists of a loop which is a continuation of one end of the wire-strip out of which the clothes-pin is made. The other leg 5 of the clothes pin consists of a single strand of wire which is a continuation of the other convolution 2 of the head 1. The free end of the leg 6 is bent upwardly to provide l the head from spreading.

When the pin is applied to a rope the legmembers will spread or part and will permit the pin to be passed over the rope until the sand rope is positioned close to the head 1, as shown at dotted lines 11, Fig. 1. When the pin is pressed home upon the rope the portions 12 and 13 of the leg members 3 and 3 will contact with the rope or clothes held thereby.

As will be apparent by an inspection of Fig. 4, the leg members 3 and 3 will exert pressure, to retain the clothes, upon diametrically opposite points of the rope. The contacting portions 12 and 13 of the legmembers 3 and 3", together with the legmembers, form a pocket, the members of which exert pressure upon the rope throughout substantially one half of its diameter.

A further feature of the pin is the difference in resiliency of the leg-members S 'and 3 the member 3 being the weaker. When the pin is applied to a rope the leg-member 3 will give and move in the direction of the arrow 9 (Fig. 1). The leg-member 3 will yield but slightly, for the reason that its end S engages the loop members 2 and 6,

. hence any tendency of the leg-member 3 to give will be resisted by the anchored end thereof at 8. Due to the above mentioned features,my improved pin will grip the rope more firmly.

Ascan be seen in Fig. 2', the leg-member 8 is passed between the leg-members 3 and 3" of the leg 3, and when the pin is not in use rests in this position; hence it is held from being forced sidewise. A further feature resides in the formation of the leg-members 3 and 3 By referring to Fig. 1, it will be seen that each legmember ponsists of diverging portions 10 and 1 1. When the legmembers are spread, the portions 10 thereof will lie in parallism as shown in Fig. 3, providing considerable gripping surface, any portion of which will exert pressure upon the rope at diametrically opposite points.

By referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that the lower portions 14 of the leg-members are bent inwardly at 15 to form a stop Patented Aug. 1'2, 1915.

' from this point diverging in straight lines to a point approximately midway between the loop and the ends of the Wire and then converging in straight lines and crossing adjacent the ends of the Wire, whereby when the pin is in operative position the normally diverging portions Will be approximately parallel.

Signed at New York city, N. Y. this 17 day of February 1915. v

AUGUST SCHUCH.

Witnesses:

MAURICE BLOCK, EDWARD A. JONES.

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